Improvement in the manufacture of plough-handles



. i l @uitrit tutes stut @frn o. BRINLY, or LOUISVILLE,` KENTUCKY.

Letters Patent Nb. 72,596, dated December 24, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN THB MANUFAUTUNB -o-F lPLoUeN-HANDLES.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY- CONCERN:

Be it known that I, '.l. E. C. BRINLY, of Louisville, in the county of Jefferson, andA State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Inventionk in the Manufacture of Plough-Handles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, and

Figure 2 is a transverse section, on the line z x, iig. 1.

The same letters are employed in both figures for the designation of parts which are identical.

My improvements relate to the mode of constructing plough-handles of irregular curvature, so that the holes A for the braces may be bored in line before the handles are attachedto the plough.

I have experienced great diiculty, in manufacturing ploughs, in putting up the handles so that the holev for the cross-braces should be in line, where the handles were of'V different lengths and of irregular curvatures. By the following mode of construction, I have been able to double the amount of work a. workman could perform in a given time. A v

A is a bench, having holes through -the top to receive pins for confining-the handles in place. B Bv represent the handles, which are of dierent lengths and of irregular curvature. 'C is a block, of the width of the plough-beam. AThe handles having been bent to the proper form, are placed on the bench, their ends being on each side of'the block C. The handles being in th'e'relative'position as they are to be in the plough, are secured i .in place by pins D, and holes to receive the braces may now be bored inline with oneanother, and in the same parts of the handles, so that the completed handles will 'always have their holes in the same relative position. Thus any handle-may be used in any plough of the designed size.

I do not claim for the form of the handles, no rany peculiar manner of bending them,.but-

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is'- The mode of manufacturing the handles of ploughs, of different lengths'and irregular curvature, by the use of al table, A, gauge-block C, and pins D, so 'as to secure the proper alignment of the. brace-holes, substan tially as set forth. l

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specicationin the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' T. E. c.- BRLNLY.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. BATES,

T. W. CONNELLY. 

